Identification of anaerobic selenate-respiring bacteria from aquatic sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3519-3527

  Narasingarao, Priya ^a   Häggblom, Max M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCATALYSTS; GENES; MARINE BIOLOGY; NITRATES; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

AQUATIC SEDIMENTS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; SELENATE REDUCTION;

BACTERIA;

NITRATE; RNA 16S; SELENATE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ISOLATED POPULATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SELENATE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CHRYSIOGENETES; DESULFUROMUSA; DISSIMILATORY SELENATE REDUCTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESTUARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOVIBRIO FERRIREDUCENS; INDIA; MALONOMONAS RUBRA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELOBACTER ACIDIGALLICI; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FERMENTATION; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW JERSEY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SODIUM SELENITE;

ASIA; CHENNAI; EURASIA; INDIA; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHRYSIOGENETES; CHRYSIOGENETES (CLASS); DEFERRIBACTERES; DESULFUROMUSA; GEOVIBRIO FERRIREDUCENS; MALONOMONAS RUBRA; PELOBACTER ACIDIGALLICI; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 34249885631     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02737-06     Document Type: Article

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